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Handling Encoded URLs

Web servers can process both encoded and decoded normalized or unescaped URLs. How a Web server handles encoded URLs differs based on the type of server. For security reasons, and to provide consistent behavior, the SPS always decodes or normalizes a URI before processing. This provides a universal representation for a single URL, and protects against attempts to exploit the SPS using encoded strings.